How to Get Bitcoins: A Fairly Comprehensive (Yet, To-The-Point) Guide

How to get BTC

The recent drop in Bitcoin’s price may signal you that it’s a good time to buy and invest in bitcoins. If time is money, then let’s not waste any time at all. You can own bitcoins or a fraction of a bitcoin by determining which of these three methods work best for your situation.

Buy Bitcoins:

Assuming you have some cash or money on hand, you can simply find an outlet/channel that can sell you bitcoins directly. Since cash is king (for now), this is the fastest way to get your hands on some bitcoins. This is further divided into three ways to buy:

Bitcoin Exchange: This option is especially ideal for those who intend to buy bitcoins as a speculative vehicle—you know: buy low, sell high, repeat. It is ideal because this is the most cost-effective way as exchanges charge much less in terms of fees compared to how much you end up paying if you buy from a bitcoin ATM. [Read more…]

Keep Looking at Klook

Homepage & App

In 2008, Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk founded Airbnb, today the startup is valued at over 10 billion USD and has disrupted the traditional travel industry in a major way and currently offer more rooms than several large hotel groups in the world. In the past few years, many others have sought to disrupt the travel industry with their start-ups too. These start-ups have brought a wider variety of choices, prices and experiences to consumers and one of the most recent ones is Klook Travel. A Hong Kong based start-up announced earlier this week that it has completed a US$1.5 million seed investment round, mainly led by Mainland China tech veteran, Xiaoguang Wu (Tencent’s Senior Executive Vice President and CEO of E-Commerce) earlier in February 2015.

According to the co-founder of Klook, Eric Gnock Fah, the company, which name stands for ‘Keep Looking’, is a one-stop-shop for travelers to explore and book a curated selection of fun-things-to-do from a skip-the-queue Hong Kong Disneyland ticket to underwater shipwreck diving adventures in Bali. The company aims to “revolutionize the lengthy, tedious process of itinerary planning into an efficient, hassle-free experience while offering exclusive deals up to 50% off and ensuring all travel picks are carefully verified”.

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3 Reasons Why You Should Join a Startup

Startup Job Fair

Update: Hong Kong Job Fair for Tech and Startups, coming up on Saturday, June 6th – sign up here

Hong Kong’s startup ecosystem has grown dramatically over the past couple of years. Often, the proof provided is the exponential growth of co-working spaces over the last 18 months. But actually what better evidence than having various facts confirm the obvious: Be it one accelerator after the other opening up, the government increasing financial support to startups, or legendary entrepreneurs such as founder and investor Peter Thiel touring the city. Hong Kong’s entrepreneurial history set up shop in the 21st century!

And here are 3 reasons why you should become part of the movement:

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